Old-Europe and DemocratsThese two paragraphs at the end of a BBC article on Cheny's speech to the WEF caught my eye:

Eva Biaudet, a Finnish MP and former health minister, said the vice president had failed to touch upon key issues like "poverty, injustice and development", while she was shocked by what she called Mr Cheney's "militaristic view of how to get democracy."

US Congressman Sander Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said that while he agreed with the basic sentiment of Mr Cheney's remarks, "he did not do well in addressing the issues that actually bother people ... like how unilateral US action fits in with the concept of collegiality" set out in the speech.